By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office has a rare opportunity. Angela Byers, who recently became the new agent in charge of the office, joined the bureau in 1986, just 14 years after the bureau began to allow women to become agents. When J. Edgar Hoover was the director,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors said FBI agents did not violate the law by tracking a New York assemblyman using cell phone tower data, The Times-Union reports. Assemblyman William Scarborough had no reasonable expectation of privacy because he was using a cell tower, which prosecutors argued is essentially a business record. The Queens Democrat…
Charles Lutz is a retired DEA Senior Executive. This column was written for ticklethewire.com By Charles Lutz Things in Washington are seldom what they seem. The media has portrayed the forced retirement of DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart as the result of agents in Colombia holding parties with prostitutes paid for by Drug Cartels, and the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On Monday, the same day that she was sworn in as the nation’s 83rd Attorney, Loretta Lynch had to deal with a heavy issue: Rioting in Baltimore. Lynch issued a statement: “I condemn the senseless acts of violence by some individuals in Baltimore that have resulted in harm to law enforcement…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — A federal law enforcement agent shot and killed a man Monday on Detroit’s northwest side , WWJ reports. WWJ reports that the agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was part of a joint federal task force that was serving an armed robbery warrant in the 9500 block of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loretta E. Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney, was sworn in Monday by Vice President Joe Biden as the new Attorney General. Lynch, 55, the first African-American female to hold the post, faced some turbulent waters, and became a political football on Capitol Hill, as high-profile appointees often are. After a lot…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a potential terrorist threat that targets the U.S. The FBI made the discovery while intercepting chatter and gathering other intelligence information, CNN reports. It’s unclear how serious the threat was or what it involved. One U.S. official said the threat involved parts of California, which has stepped…
By Editorial Board New York Times The odds were 10-million-to-one, the prosecution said, against hair strands found at the scene of a 1978 murder of a Washington, D.C., taxi driver belonging to anyone but Santae Tribble. Based largely on this compelling statistic, drawn from the testimony of an analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,…
